I don't know about the rest of the world but there are now colleges in India that are graduating engineers without college level physics education in mechanics (classical and quantum), electricity & magnetism and special relativity, and at least one college level chemistry course.
This is disastrous! Not only is this much exposure to physics and chemistry required in any engineering branch in itself, the entire field of engineering activity in the world today is multi-disciplinary! On any given day, any real world engineering task today requires mechanical, electrical, chemical and other engineers to work together towards a common objective. And the foundation of this inter-disciplinary collaboration capability rests on "core courses" that are required for all branches.
[You will also find computer scientists claiming things like "computer science education does not require continuous mathematics like calculus - just discrete math is enough". But that is just too ridiculous for me to write a dedicated post on.]
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